H.Res. 288 – Recognizing the importance of park and recreation facilities and expressing support for the designation of the month of July as “National Park and Recreation Month” (Rep. Barrow – Natural Resources)

H.Res. 616 – Congratulating the Louisiana State University baseball team for winning the 2009 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I College World Series (Rep. Cassidy – Education and Labor)

H.R. 3300 – To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to provide more effective reviews of losses in the Deposit Insurance Fund and the Share Insurance Fund by the Inspectors General of the several Federal banking agencies and the National Credit Union Administration Board (Rep. Driehaus – Financial Services)

H.Res. 593 – Recognizing and celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the entry of Hawaii into the Union as the 50th State (Rep. Abercrombie – Oversight and Government Reform)

H.Res. 373 – Expressing support for designation of the month of September as “National Hydrocephalus Awareness Month” (Rep. Bachmann – Oversight and Government Reform)

H.R. 3072 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 9810 Halls Ferry Road in St. Louis, Missouri, as the “Coach Jodie Bailey Post Office Building” (Rep. Clay – Oversight and Government Reform)

H.Res. 483 – Supporting the goals and ideals of Veterans of Foreign Wars Day (Rep. Kline – Oversight and Government Reform)

TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2009 AND THE BALANCE OF THE WEEK

On Tuesday, the House will meet at 10:30 a.m. for Morning Hour debate and 12:00 p.m. for legislative business. On Wednesday and Thursday, the House will meet at 10:00 a.m. for legislative business. On Friday, the House will meet at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business.

Suspensions (11 Bills)

H.R. 3325 –To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to reauthorize for 1 year the Work Incentives Planning and Assistance program and the Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security program (Rep. Tanner – Ways and Means)

H.Res. 508 – Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the general aviation industry should be recognized for its contributions to the United States (Rep. Fortenberry – Transportation and Infrastructure)

H.R. 1752 – To provide that the usual day for paying salaries in or under the House of Representatives may be established by regulations of the Committee on House Administration (Rep. Brady (PA) – House Administration)

Thu., 7/30, 10am. House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations: The Implications of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Limited Scope of Gulf War Illness Research

Thu., 7/30, 1pm. House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties: Proposals for Reform of the Military Commissions System

Thu., 7/30, 2pm. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution: S. J. Res 7, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to the election of Senators

The House will keep the wheels turning on Monday and Tuesday with another full plate of suspensions. That usually ticks people off, when they know there are so many important issues they’d rather see the House spending its time on. And normally, I’m able to point them to committee activity and explain that this is what the House occupies its time with when Members are traveling back and forth from their districts, or busy in committee with all that “real” stuff everyone wants them to be working on. But you may also notice that the committee schedules are a little on the light side, too. That’s because the real action will be in an all-day meeting of the House Democratic Caucus on Monday, meant to air out all the issues they can on the health care reform bill, go through it section by section, answer Members’ questions and concerns the best they can, and try to see if they can work things out such that they can move forward with the markup in the Energy & Commerce Committee and even possibly get to a floor vote at the end of the week — which may mean over the actual weekend. The odds are on the slim side for a floor vote, to be sure. But they’re getting better for at least moving ahead with the markup.

On the floor for sure later in the week are a few bills likely to spark at least some fireworks. The Defense appropriations bill, like all the approps bills this year, will undoubtedly draw Republican protest over restrictions on amendments. And as an added bonus, probably another resolution from Jeff Flake (R-AZ-06), targeting the PMA lobbying scandal, and indirectly (but not very indirectly) the Defense subcommittee chairman, Jack Murtha (D-PA-12).

On the Senate side, there’s actually nothing penciled in on the calendar. The Senate did finally finish with the Department of Defense authorization bill that had occupied them for the past two weeks or so. I would anticipate that they’d be moving on to appropriations bills ASAP. The much-anticipated Finance Committee markup of the Senate version of the health care bill is not firmly on anyone’s radar just yet, and the prospects for a Senate vote before the recess are virtually nil.

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